Associations to the word «Lexicography»

Wiktionary

LEXICOGRAPHY, noun. The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
LEXICOGRAPHY, noun. (linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.

Dictionary definition

LEXICOGRAPHY, noun. The act of writing dictionaries.

Wise words

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle